PSYC 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Prenatal Development, Frequency Distribution, Teratology
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Objectives: define ages that make up human development stages, define the stages of prenatal development (3 stages, names and what happens, human perception in utero, define and list teratogens --> how can they cause harm. Infants and children usually but continues until death: conception to death, examination of continuity and change across the entire lifespan, some thing stay the same --> some portions of our personality. Looking at: sensation and perception, though and language, emotion, social and moral behavior, 4 main periods of human development, prenatality and infancy (conception to 2-3 years, childhood (2-3 to 11 years, adolescence (12-17 years, adulthood and aging (18-death) Themes of human development: continuity vs. change, nature vs. nurture, mechanisms of change. Sociocultural context (most research in north america maybe from well off families) Failure of autobiographical memory --> leads us to believe that young infant memories are less relative.